damper "grain"

[Richard Moody]

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Subject: Re: damper "grain"


| Geez John this is an easy one!  "horizontally cut" damper felt comes
from
| Sheep who live in the mountains....by the time they get to the
shearing pens
| they are so tired from having to run uphill that they lay down to be
| sheared...whereas "vertical cut" damper felt comes from realatively
lazy
| flatland sheep who don't ever have to lie down to rest and are
sheared
| standing up. :-)

Yes but the preferred wool comes from the most active sheep.  Such
sheep are better shorn sitting in sheep seats.  Then it is easier if
the sheep shearer also sits .  The wool shorn by  shearers sitting
shearing sitting sheep is somehow cleaner and renders a much better
felt especially for dampers.
---ric